Target Road Schools Gardening Club

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Target Road SchoolsGardening Club
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Why a garden?

• Children will learn how fruit and vegetables
  grow.
• How to care for seeds, seedlings and plants.
• Learn about composting and waste management.
• Learn about healthy eating through harvesting and
  cooking what we grow.
• A place for teachers to take their classes to
  observe plant, insect and worm lifecycles, read a
  book, study nature or have an art lesson etc
• Beautify our school environment.
• Have FUN!

• There are so many good reasons for having a
  garden that we simply cannot list them all!

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Come and look at the Swan Plant, caterpillars
and if youre lucky Monarch Butterflies.
Or just enjoy watching the plants grow!
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How it all began

• first we had to choose a sunny sheltered spot.
  We found the perfect piece of land behind Mr
  Coopers sheds but

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there was just a bit of tidying up to do!

• Can you see us amongst the trees, bushes and
  rubbish?
• We needed two large skips to take away all that
  rubbish!

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From this
to this
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What a job!

• We cut down trees and pulled and pulled until the
  roots came out! We hacked down bushes and picked
  up all kinds of rubbish that had been lying there
  for years including a glass milk bottle.

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The vegetable gardens were dug by some very
hardworking mums.
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They (and willing preschoolers) dug and dug

• until the gardens were ready for the new soil,
  all three cubic metres of it!

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Then came Mr Pola with his bobcat to flatten the
land ready for planting our corn patch.
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All we needed now was soil

• along came the tip truck!

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Everyone pitched in to spade, wheelbarrow and
rake the soil over the gardens.
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Dont the gardens look great! Now what?
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We began planting seeds and seedlings.

• We planted herbs,
• sliverbeet, radishes, celery, chocolate capsicum,
  tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, cabbage and much
  more!

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We were really excited about planting the corn
patch and having the runner beans growing up the
corn.
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We planted potatoes and strawberries in tyres,
olive, lemon, fig and feijoa trees!
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Enthusiastic Year One children digging in one of
the lemon trees.
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Mrs Pola (our gardening expert) and her girls
working together to plant one of the new lemon
trees.
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Our happy crew.
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The seniors with Mr Julians help planted a
Macadamia Tree.
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Now that the garden was planted we had to care
for it by

• weeding, watering and composting.

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Compost (kompost) n. 1. a mixture of
organic residues such as decomposed vegetation,
manure, etc., used as a fertilizer.We have two
kinds of composting happening in our garden the
compost bin and the worm farm.
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Digging in our Homemade compost.
Some of our keen gardeners
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• In the compost bin is some of your lunch scraps,
  grass clippings, old vegetables and manure from
  the farm visit last year. We regularly turn over
  the compost to show black decomposed matter which
  is a wonderful food for growing plants.

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The Worm Farm

• We bought special Tiger Worms they are long and
  skinny
• They love eating fruit and vegetable scraps
• They produce Vermi-liquid which is good for our
  plants
• The Vermi-liquid will be sold to make money for
  more plants

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Yummy!
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The Harvest
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Can you see the colours of the Rainbow silverbeet
The beans were delicious!
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Beans, tomatoes and cabbages.
Corn
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The last of the summer crops.
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Having fun hiding amongst the corn and beans!
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After the harvest the gardeners pulled out the
dying plants and weeded around the herb garden.
Have you seen the very tiny tomatoes hidden under
the leaves or tasted the basil yet?
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The pumpkin is getting a little bit bigger every
day
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Enjoying our pumpkin bread!
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Look at the beautiful Giant Sunflowers. It was
hard to believe that each Sunflower was a tiny
seed just before Christmas 2008!
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The Sunflowers grew higher than the fences and
looked glorious swaying in the sunshine.
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As the Sunflower heads died away we gathered
their seeds to dry, package and sell.
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Keep counting boys youre doing a great job!
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Future plans

• Boxing in the gardens
• Making a path around the gardens and sheds
• More PLANTING, weeding, watering and composting
• Creating a Native Bush Garden
• Painting tyres, artwork in and around the gardens
• Beautifying classroom gardens
• Gathering storing and growing our own seeds
• Cooking our produce

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• A big THANK YOU to all children and their
  families who donated seeds and plants, children,
  parents and teachers who donated time and muscle
  power to create the gardens for the benefit of
  everyone at Target Road School.
• Happy Gardening!